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Internationalisation of African Higher Education

Status, Challenges and Issues

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Africa faces several development challenges which have perennially threatened the socio-economic wellbeing of its people and stifled different facets of growth. Africa’s quest is to overcome these bottlenecks and take advantage of opportunities for enhanced development. These challenges have been summarised within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which are discussed extensively in the introduction to this book.

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  1. African Network for Internationalisation of Education (ANIE), Moi University, Kenya

    James Otieno Jowi

  2. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

    Jane Knight

  3. Department of Education Management and Policy Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Chika Sehoole

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  1. University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Chika Sehoole

  2. University of Toronto, Canada

    Jane Knight

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Jowi, J.O., Knight, J., Sehoole, C. (2013). Internationalisation of African Higher Education. In: Sehoole, C., Knight, J. (eds) Internationalisation of African Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-311-9_2

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